We initially purchased it as NAS, we wanted a fast way to store and share files in our office and store daily backups of all our computers. And it works flawlessly. You can create as many shared folders as you like, you get granular control of user's permissions, and you can securely access your NAS from outside your network.

We now also use it as a chat server (Synology chat is like slack, but you own it) and to host Synology's productivity apps (like Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets, without the surveillance and selling of our personal information). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting it up took as about a day (we are a small company without an IT Department), so it could be a bit friendlier towards the non-technical administrator. It has a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it can do wonders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have all features you'll need. They are forward-thinking and include things like the ability to sign a cert with Let's Encrypt so that browsers will not warn you of unsigned or self-signed certs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The processor on each device is a little light for what all the device does; this makes some processes a little slower than I would like. Along that line, some things like virus scanning are slower than expected, but not bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The online portals and apps assist people that might be new to utilizing a server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Even with the apps and tutorials, there are a lot of unanswered questions. There doesn't seem to be any type of a local team to help a business out. Out of office access is slow. No fault of their own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Synology is the feature set Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Right now would be product availability due to shipping constraints (not really Synology's fault) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Backup all data to Amazon S3. Has LDAP server, SMTP server for disaster notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's new mandatory proprietary backup format makes disaster recovery annoying. But enabling legacy backup will avoid this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite trick is to get a Synology Diskstation and buy them in pairs. Put them in Physically different places and have them sync. You can use the Disktation CloudSync tools or you can even just use basic Rsync which is nice so you can sync with other systems as well.

I also like how easy it is to do things like spin up a quick plex server. You can also spin up lots of other built-in servers/containers. It's nice and easy and makes me look like a genius to my clients.

I also like how configurable they are. You can run multi-el drives, in multiple RAID configurations, as well as connect drives from outside sources. You can upgrade the RAM for better performance, and it supports Multiple NICs so you can get max speed out of the box as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, they update a LOT. Which I guess is actually a great thing for security. But sometimes they move the features around during updates and I have to find the setting in the new place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Synology has completely replaced all of our previous cloud storage options with a long-term solution. Rather than paying annual fees for something like DropBox, we bought our DiskStation and own our own service using Synology Drive. We use Synology Video Station to create our own streaming media service for our children's classes. We use our DiskStation to record and maintain our security camera footage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is absolutely nothing I would change about the Synology at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well curated package center with lots of useful applications, which are mostly stable with consistent updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be tough learning curve for new user that are new to NAS environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its very easy to use and easilyunderstandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Till now, didn't face any issue which leads to dislikeness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's straightforward to configure and easy to recover or import the data in the device failures. System Administration, user management, and can deploy VM and containers directly. It's very reliable storage, as I experienced for the hypervisor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As such i did not find any thing to say that I dislike any feature or the solution provided by the disk station. Let us get an option to self configure the security as per our wise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.